pool
suomi-englanti sanakirjapool englannista suomeksi
läikkä
biljardi
lammikko
porukka, palvelu
yhdistää
potti
koota porukka, liittyä porukkaan
kimppa, rahasto
yhtymä
allas
Substantiivi
pool englanniksi
A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.
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(RQ:Shakespeare Tempest) at laſt I left themI’ th’ filthy mantled poole beyond your Cell,There dancing vp to th’ chins, that the fowle LakeOre-ſtunck their feet.
(RQ:Bacon Essayes)
(quote-book)
Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
(ellipsis of)
(quote-journal)
{{quote-journal|en|journal=Time|title=Workers Who Were Laid Off Say They're Being Passed Over—For Their Own Jobs|author=Alana Semuels|date=Oct 15 2020
A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
A small amount of liquid on a surface.
A localized glow of light.
To form a pool.
A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game.
(senseid) A sport played on a table. There are 15 balls, 7 of one colour or solids, 7 of another color or stripes, and the black ball (also called the ball). A player must pocket all their own colour balls and then the black ball in order to win.
{{quote-text|en|year=1848|author=William Makepeace Thackeray|title=The Book of Snobs|chapter=23
In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners.
A group of fencers taking part in a competition.
(syn)
A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a share; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
(senseid) A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed.
''The pool took all the wheat offered below the limit.''
''He put $10,000 into the pool.''
A set of players in quadrille etc.
A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
To put together; contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of.
{{quote-text|en|year=1920|author=Frank L. Packard|title=The White Moll|chapter=4
(quote-journal)|passage=It all started 6 years ago, as Rutgers University scientists Allan Conney, Ph.D., and George C. Wagner, Ph.D., chatted at an office get-together. (..) From this conversation, the two decided to pool their knowledge and join forces.
27 February 2010, (w), ''Presidential Weekly Address - Time for Us to Act''
- Many on both sides agreed that we should give small businesses and individuals the ability to participate in a new insurance marketplace – which members of Congress would also use – that would allow them to pool their purchasing power and get a better deal from insurance companies.
To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
(l) (l) (especially of the Earth and other celestial bodies)
(l) (l) (e.g. of a battery)
an opposing side of a principle or a doctrine
a (l) (l) such as a football pool
the (l) involved in such a venture
an (l) where people pool in money to share one resource such as a (l)
(l)
the (l) ((l) usually (l) hair) on certain fabrics, velvet or carpeting
(coi)
(l) (gloss)
(alternative form of)
a pool
(alt form)
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